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Headlines from GLW #798, 17 June 2009:


Indian students speak: Stop the racist attacks!
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 13 June 2009
AUSTRALIA: On May 31 in Melbourne, 5000 angry students marched against the increasing number of violent attacks on Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi students. »

Aboriginal MP: ALP fails on land rights
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 13 June 2009
AUSTRALIA: Marion Scrymgour — the highest ranking Aboriginal member of any government in Australia — quit the Northern Territory Labor Party over its Aboriginal policy on June 4. As an independent, she now holds the balance of power. »

Middle East: Can Obama bring peace?
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 13 June 2009
US President Barack Obama’s June 4 speech at Cairo University has been reported in the Western media as a decisive change in US foreign policy. It has been presented as the fulfilment of his election promise to find a way out of the wars and conflicts that his predecessor, George Bush, had started or helped fuel. »

Goodbye GM — an opportunity for green jobs
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 13 June 2009
General Motors, as we know it, has been totalled. »

Muzzling the Chaser — the politics behind the outrage
CULTURAL DISSENT, 13 June 2009
AUSTRALIA: The Chaser comedy team had its top-rating show, The Chaser’s War on Everything, suspended by the ABC for two weeks after an outcry over a sketch screened on June 3 that joked about the Make a Wish Foundation charity for sick children. »

ACTU congress — what can it deliver?
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 13 June 2009
AUSTRALIA: “Delivering for all Working Australians” was the slogan for the 2009 Australian Council of Trade Unions congress held June on 2-4. This raises the question — what if you are not working or an Australian citizen? But the congress will not be remembered for such philosophical questions — there were many more immediate issues at stake. »



Other Headlines


Peru: Battle for the Amazon
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 13 June 2009
Peruvian President Alan Garcia ordered a violent crackdown on indigenous protesters near the town of Bagua Grande, 1400 kilometres north of Peruvian capital Lima. Special Forces opened fire, including from helicopters. »

Thousands rally for 100% renewables by 2020
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 13 June 2009
Thousands took the streets on June 13 for the National Climate Emergency Rallies. Protesters declared a climate emergency and demanded the Australian government take emergency action on climate change. »

Nigeria: Shell found guilt of human rights abuses, murder
BRIEF, 13 June 2009
This article is abridged from Oil Change International. »

Veolia/Connex abandons Jerusalem rail project due to boycott Israel campaign
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 13 June 2009
Veolia is the French corporation that owns Connex, which runs Melbourne’s train system. It has been the target around the world, including in Melbourne, of protests by the Palestinian solidarity campaign as part of the growing “boycott, divestment and sanctions” (BDS) campaign targeting Israel in protest against its apartheid policies towards Palestinians. »

Afghan feminist: 'No other country can grant us peace'
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 13 June 2009
With more than 20,000 extra US soldiers being deployed to Afghanistan, a member of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) argues that eight years of foreign occupation has made life worse for ordinary Afghans. »

The powerhouse of shame
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 13 June 2009
The morning air is crisp and the smoky air wafts over the strike camp in the shadow of the imposing Hazelwood power station in Victoria’s La Trobe Valley. We receive a warm, country welcome from two emergency services officers (ESOs), Mick and Brian. »

ACTU disappoints on climate change
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 13 June 2009
At first glance, the climate change policy decided at the June 2-4 Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) national congress looks serious. Global warming is “the policy challenge of our time”, it declares. »

El Salvador: 'Change begins now!'
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 13 June 2009
The article below is abridged from a June 3 statement by the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador. For more information, visit . »

Ireland: Campaign against extradition of Basque activists launched
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 13 June 2009

Lebanon: US interference mars elections
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 13 June 2009

Living with Australia’s highest rents
RESISTANCE!, 13 June 2009

Western Sahara: Phosphate workers exploited by Australia, Spain
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 13 June 2009

Latin America backs Cuba in new blow to US
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 13 June 2009

Qld abortion debate heats up
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 13 June 2009

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  • El Salvador: 'Change begins now!'
  • Goodbye GM — an opportunity for g...
  • Ireland: Campaign against extraditi...
  • Latin America backs Cuba in new blo...
  • Lebanon: US interference mars elect...
  • Mainstream parties punished in Euro...
  • Microsoft blocks Cuba from using Me...
  • Middle East: Can Obama bring peace?...
  • Peru: Battle for the Amazon
  • United States: Homes demolished due...
  • Venezuela condemns Peruvian massaci...
  • Venezuela: Socialist party calls fo...
  • Veolia/Connex abandons Jerusalem r...
  • Western Sahara: Phosphate workers e...
  • Brief: Nigeria: Shell found ...

    • read »Comment & Analysis

  • Aboriginal MP: ALP fails on land ri...
  • ACTU congress — what can it de...
  • ACTU congress says no to radioactiv...
  • ACTU disappoints on climate change
  • Afghan feminist: 'No other country ...
  • Gov’t backdown on super
  • How we can defeat Bligh´s privatis...
  • Human rights at the crossroads
  • Indian students speak: Stop the rac...
  • Our Common Cause: Unite against rac...
  • Protests against violence faced by ...
  • The powerhouse of shame
  • The recession we (didn’t quite...
  • Union offers cold showers
  • Vale Jean Hale 1912-2009
  • Resistance!: Billionaires de...
  • Resistance!: Indian students...
  • Resistance!: Living with Aus...

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  • Green Left Weekly Fighting...

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  • ETU leader: ‘Put unions before th...
  • Media repression in Sri Lanka expos...
  • Qld abortion debate heats up
  • Rally for Ark Tribe
  • Thousands rally for 100% renewables...
  • Tieman workers stand united
  • Brief: ‘Obama could fre...
  • Brief: ‘Viva Palestina&...
  • Brief: Australians in Gaza d...
  • Brief: Break ties with apart...
  • Brief: Climate activists occ...
  • Brief: Climate change kills
  • Brief: Climate protest stops...
  • Brief: End violence against ...
  • Brief: FMLN victory celebrat...
  • Brief: Man dies after QLD po...
  • Brief: Massive support for B...
  • Brief: Organic growers prote...
  • Brief: Work-bans, stop-work ...

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